person
Scipio
also: Scipiones, the Scipios
The Scipios, the great Republican family of commanders (above all Scipio Africanus, victor over Hannibal); a stock exemplar of old Roman generalship.
Reading notes
- The Letters §8.6.2 the Africani, the Achaici, the Numantini
The great Republican generals known by their triumphal cognomina — the Scipios (Africanus, the conqueror of Carthage; the destroyer of Numantia) and Mummius Achaicus — set below a freedman by the decree's flattery.
- Panegyric to Trajan §13 the Scipios
The Scipios, the great Republican commanders, above all Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal — a stock model of old Roman generalship.